#innocuous rambles

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Real question. Why are folks tagging their homestuck posts #hom3stuck these days?

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Despite andrew hussie’s best efforts, I still like homestuck.

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Alright so just a few words about this homestuck stuff.

I'm just done.  After the epilogues, I don't have any emotional bandwidth left for any of this bullshit. I genuinely don't feel anything about homestuck2 but a little bit of disdain.  The epilogues were just so abhorrent to me that they forced me emotionally disengage with homestuck, which had been incredibly important to me.  The existence of the epilogues in the fan consciousness changed the landscape of the fandom into one that is exhausting for me to navigate it and has slowly worn down my energy and passion.  

Leading up to 4/13 this year, I had a lot of different Homestuck fan projects in the works, but after the epilogues, I stopped working on almost all of them and at this point, most of them will probably remain unfinished.  I still love homestuck, but as my quiet on this blog might have suggested, hussie's antics these past months has left me too burned out to make homestuck fan content for the time being.   That isn’t to say I never will again, I just probably won’t for quite some time.  With that being said, I don't know where this blog is headed from here; I might post fanart for other fandoms or some of my personal art, but I don’t really know right now.  Time will tell.

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I feel like nothing good has entered my media diet in years. Time to be sad and re-read fma again.

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is anyone else just... sad all the time?

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I know I’m late but I wanted to post a year-in-art thing anyways.  The last while has been rough, but I’m really proud of some of the things I’ve made this year.  I was able to finish my Little Lion Man lyricstuck at long last and my Two of Swords illustration is my favorite piece of art I’ve made.  I feel like my art is starting to shape up a little bit, although there is certainly a lot of room for improvement.

I looked back on my year-in-art post from last year and I feel like I’ve improved on my composition, which was one of my goals.  For 2018 I’d like to work on loosening up my poses, working on expressions, and just drawing more often.  I haven’t drawn anything in months and I want to get myself back into it.  Bonus challenge:  see if I can make another lyricstuck this year!

Here’s the year-in-art template I used!

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dirk is like a hydra.... you cut off his head and you’re just gonna get more dirk splinters

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okay, so I’m 98% sure that someone sent me a message on tumblr earlier today but... it’s gone?  I didn’t open it yet, but it’s gone.  I checked all of my conversations and it’s just not there?  So if you sent me a message, tumblr’s notoriously unreliable messaging system ate it.